2 posts tagged “meta”
I'm still around.
Can you guys see comments on my posts? When I'm not logged in, I see
no comments, nor do I see a place to post any. Not that I'm trolling
for comments or anything.
I'll be taking down my blog
when the domain expires in a few days. There are a few different
reasons - for example, I want to post music and have it look cool and
shit, but I don't have the skills or the time to learn them. I mean, I
have to put food on the table and work to do and things to make and,
frankly, there are many other things I find much more compelling than
web design. [No offense to anyone or anything.] Also, I've lost
significant readership over time; when I went back to work a couple
years ago, then went to almost full-time a year ago, then went
full-time in May and concurrently made the decision to have both
children attend school - I lost readers every time. I post far less
(and with far less substance), and I know a few people felt as though
I'd sold out each time I, you know, bought in. It got to the point where I felt like I'd sold out, a little.
I'm much more at peace with my decisions now, however.
The last couple of years have been incredibly strange. I'm ready to become a more private person again, sharing my life with my family and close friends and working things out on paper. Letting it blurt all over the web hasn't really resulted in much Real Work being done emotionally - just the opposite, in fact. Many of the recent big shifts in my psyche came about when I was taking a little time away from online life. My close friend J has referred to the blogosphere as a wonderful, terrible place - a mirror where one's flaws and accomplishments can be magnified, reduced, or otherwise distorted. And it's not the blogosphere's fault - it's how people like me, and J, and many others I've known, navigate the blogosphere. I need to make my digital world smaller, I guess, so I can expand my analog horizons.
When the going gets weird, as old Hunter S. Thompson used to say, the weird turn pro. I'm weird, and I sure went pro. I'm considered a professional, even.
How weird is that!?
In any event, when I post I'll be posting here from now on. Galaxy Gramophone will get postings at least twice a week, and most definitely on Tuesdays. You might have to be a Vox member to comment.
OK? OK!
... to have too many places to put oneself out there?
I mean, I have a blog, a Livejournal, a list at 43 Things, a profile
at StumbleUpon, etc. I'm only barely active at a couple of those, since
work and RL activities are pretty time-consuming lately.
What does that say about me? That I'm compulsive about finding like minds? That I need attention? That I don't have enough of an online presence?
That being said, I'm glad to test something new and I hope to meet a
few new people this way. Livejournal is wearing me out lately, and
while I enjoy my blog, I've found some of the attention I've gotten
from it to be irritating. I know. I'm terrible.
OK! Love to all! Beta testing rules!
